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The Presumption of Guilt
The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates...
by Facing History and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Choosing to Participate focuses on the civic choices-both large and small-people make about themselves and others in their community, nation, and world. As teachers and students explore the readings in this collection they will come to understand that choices people make may not seem important at the...
Black Rebellion
Eyewitness Accounts of Major Slave Revolts
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
A collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas. Who will tell the stories of those who refused to be slaves? The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their...
Projections of Passing
Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A key concern in postwar America was "who's passing for whom?" Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an...
Democracy in Black
How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to...
We Gon' Be Alright
Notes on Race and Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST)
In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country....
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.
by Harry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In the Age of Obama, the ugly charge of racism is more prevalent than ever. Why? Because telling the truth about racial profiling, crime, the social fallout of single parent homes, and the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and justice would mean facing up to the soul-destroying...
Winning the Race
Beyond the Crisis in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.
Winning the Race examines the roots of...
Race and the University
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
‘A masterpiece … [Douglass] was not only self-educated, with a love of language which should still be an inspiration; he was also self-created’ New York Times
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. After his escape in 1838 he became an ardent abolitionist, and his...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Full text of "John Brown. An address by Frederick Douglass, at the fourteenth anniversary of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881".
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer,...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same...
The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
A Century-Old Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served...